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. 2019 Jul 31;9(3):239-240.
doi: 10.5826/dpc.0903a20. eCollection 2019 Jul.

Dermoscopy of Pigmented Vulvar Basal Cell Carcinoma

Carolina Bertaina  1 , Gabriel Salerni  1   2 , Melisa Celoria  1 , Silvina Lombardo  1 , Mario Gorosito  3 , Ana Molteni  1 , Ramón Fernández-Bussy  1
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Dermoscopy of Pigmented Vulvar Basal Cell Carcinoma

Carolina Bertaina et al. Dermatol Pract Concept. .
No abstract available

Keywords: basal cell carcinoma; dermoscopy; imaging techniques; skin cancer.

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Competing interests: The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
(A) Clinical aspect of the lesion. (B) Dermoscopy image: Irregularly shaped blue-black clods and structureless bluish and red-pink areas were observed. The lesion was surrounded by a whitish halo. [Copyright: ©2019 Bertaina et al.]
Figure 2
Figure 2
Neoplastic proliferation with basaloid pattern, with neoplastic nodules in the dermis and in contact with the surface epithelium. (A) The stroma exhibits leukocytic infiltrate and numerous melanophages (H&E, ×20). (B) Ulceration and presence of basaloid nodules and infiltrating cords were observed (H&E, ×40). H&E = hematoxylin and eosin. [Copyright: ©2019 Bertaina et al.]
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